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Report  Of  Committee  On  Education 

To  The  Grand  Chapter  of  North  Carolina,  Royal  Arch  Masons: 

of  North  Carolina,  Knights  Templar: 

Your  Committee  on  Education  herewith  make  a  report 
for  the  past  Templar  year,  included  in  which  is  a  detail  statement 
of  the  transactions  of  the  committee  for  the  preceding  Templar 
year,  which  were  reported  to  the  Grand  Bodies  last  year,  and 
are  here  brought  forward  for  information. 

During  the  school  year  1921-1922,  before  it  was  known  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  would  join  in  this  work,  it  was  determined  to 
establish  two  educational  loan  funds,  one  at  the  North  Carolina  Col- 
loge  for  Women  at  Greensboro  and  the  other  at  East  Carolina 
Teachers’  College  at  Greenville,  (both  being  institutions  for  young 
women)  and  the  funds  so  established  were  known  as  “Knights 
Templar  and  Royal  Arch  Masons’  Loan  Fund.” 

At  the  annual  communication  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  Jan¬ 
uary,  1922,  the  Grand  Lodge  voted  to  join  in  this  work  and  ap¬ 
propriated  $1,000.00  for  the  educational  movement.  In  Septem¬ 
ber,  1922,  the  Grand  Master,  the  Grand  High  Priest  and  the 
representative  of  the  Grand  Commander  met  at  Wake  Forest, 
N.  C.,  and  ascertained  that  there  was  $2,500.00  appropriated 
(Grand  Lodge,  $1,000.00,  Grand  Chapter,  $1,000.00,  Grand  Com- 
mandery,  $500)  and  thereupon  decided  to  ask  their  respective 
Bodies  for  $2,500.00  additional  (namely.  Grand  Lodge,  $500.00, 
Grand  Chapter,  $1,000.00,  Grand  Commandery,  1,000.00)  making 
the  educational  loan  fund  for  the  year  1922-1923  aggregrate  $5,- 
000.00,  which  was  done.  It  was  then  determined  that  this  sum 
would  be  divided  into  four  funds  of  $1,250.00  each  and  one  placed 
at  each  of  the  four  State  institutions,  (n)  University  of  North 
Carolina  at  Chapel  Hill,  {b)  State  College  of  Agriculture  and 
Engineering  at  Raleigh,  (c)  North  Carolina  College  for  Women 
at  Greensboro,  and  (d)  East  Carolina  Teachers’  College  at  Green¬ 
ville. 

Past  Grand  High  Priest  and  Past  Grand  Commander  Alex¬ 
ander  B.  Andrews  was  designated  as  Treasurer  of  the  joint  fund 
for  the  three  bodies,  as  well  as  of  the  Knights  Templar  and_  Royal 
Arch  Masons  Loan  Fund,  who  collected  the  several  appropriations 
and  disbursed  them  as  per  the  statements  herein  set  out.  (See 
Statements  Nos.  1  and  4.) 

The  name  “Masonic  Loan  Fund”  was  given  out  of  compli¬ 
ment  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  as  an  identification  of  the  fund 
to  the  world  at  large,  although  the  Grand  Chapter  and  Grand 
Commandery  had  put  up  70  per  cent,  of  the  entire  amount. 

These  funds  have  been  placed  at  the  institutions  named,  with 
request  that  they  treat  them  just  like  any  other  loan  funds  they 
have  for  deserving  students,  showing  no  partiality  to  children  or 
relatives  of  Masons,  but  asking  that  the  preference  be  given  to  de¬ 
serving  seniors  and  juniors,  so  that  the  loans  might  be  repaid 
earlier  and  thereby  help  a  larger  number  of  young  men  and  wo- 

men.  i  ^ 

In  the  spring  of  1922,  Grand  Commander  Raymond  C.  Dunn, 

(now  Deputy  Grand  High  Priest)  in  visiting  the  Commanderies 
secured  promises  from  twenty-eight  Commanderies  that  thej/ 
would  assist  in  the  education  of  some  boy  or  girl,  preferably 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


through  four  years  of  college  and  during  the  year  your  committee 
has  been  advised  of  the  following  Commanderies  having  acted 
in  this  matter: 

Plantagenet  Commandery,  No.  1,  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

Defraying  the  expenses  of  a  family  so  that  the  wage  earn¬ 
ing  daughter  may  attend  school,  as  her  wages  had  been  necessary 
for  the  family  expenses. 

Charlotte  Commandery,  No.  2,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Fund  of  approximately  $250.00  has  been  created  and  will 
used  as  loan  fund  when  suitable  beneficiary  is  located. 

t 

Durham  Commandery,  No.  3,  Durham,  N.  C. 

In  spring  of  1922,  loaned  to  Elon  College  student  $75.00 
needed  to  carry  on  his  work.  Offered  to  help  him  again,  but  he 
preferred  to  remain  out  of  school  a  year  and  work  before  resum¬ 
ing  his  education. 

Have  advanced  $150.00  to  a  worthy  student  of  Trinity  Col¬ 
lege. 

Raleigh  Commandery,  No.  4,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  young  woman  at  North  Carolina  College  for 
Women  at  Greensboro,  who  graduated  1921  at  a  rural  high  school 
in  Wake  County  and  who  taught  in  that  county  the  past  year. 

Cyrene  Commandery,  No.  5,  Asheville,  N.  C. 

Contributed  $250.00  along  with  $250.00  additional  from 
Asheville  Chapter,  No.  25,  R.  A.  M.,  to  “Masonic  Loan  Fund’’  to 
be  placed  at  Cullowhee  Normal  School. 

Piedmont  Commandery,  No.  6,  Winston-Salem,  N.  C. 

Committee  has  raised  fund  but  has  not  yet  found  boy  or  girl 
to  assist. 

Mt.  Lebanon  Commandery,  No.  7,  Wilson,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  Knight  Templar’s  son  at  State  College  of  Agri¬ 
culture  and  Engineering  at  Raleigh. 

IvANHOE  Commandery,  No.  8,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 

Has  contributed  $200.00  to  Knights  Templar  and  Royal  Arch 
Masons’  Loan  Fund. 

St.  John’s  Commandery,  No.  10,  New  Bern,  N.  C. 

St.  Aldemar  Commandery,  No.  12,  Enfield,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  boy  at  State  College  of  Agriculture  and  Engin¬ 
eering  at  Raleigh. 

Salisbury  Commandery,  No.  13,  Salisbury,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  daughter  of  a  deceased  Knight  Templar  at 
North  Carolina  College  for  Women  at  Greensboro,  N.  C.,  who 
expects  to  make  teaching  her  life  work. 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


Griggs  Commandery,  No.  14,  Elizabeth  City,  N.  C. 
Educating  a  girl,  a  1921  high  school  graduate,  at  East  Caro¬ 
lina  Teachers’  College. 

Henderson  Commandery,  No.  15,  Henderson,  N.  C. 

Southern  Pines  Commandery,  No.  16,  Southern  Pines,  N.  C. 

Contributed  $200.00  to  Knights  Templar  and  Royal  Arch 
Masons’  Loan  Fund,  which  was  equally  divided  between  North 
Carolina  College  for  Women  and  East  Carolina  Teachers’  College. 


Hickory  Commandery,  No.  17,  Hickory,  N.  C. 

Has  loaned  $200.00  and  $300.00,  respectively,  to  two  young 
men,  one  at  Merryville  College,  Merryville,  Tenn.,  a  son  of  a 
widow,  and  a  graduate  of  the  city  high  school,  while  the  other 
is  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  a  graduate  of  a  high 
school  in  a  neighboring  town  and  the  nephew  of  a  Mason. 


St.  Paul’s  Commandery,  No.  18,  Kinston,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  girl  at  the  East  Carolina  Teachers’  College  at 
Greenville,  N.  C. 

The  chairman  of  the  Commandery  committee  is  also  chair¬ 
man  of  the  sixth  Masonic  District  Educational  Committee  and 
advises  that  the  Masonic  Lodges  of  that  district  are  also  educat¬ 
ing  another  young  woman  at  the  East  Carolina  Teachers’  Col¬ 
lege. 

Malta  Commandery,  No.  19,  Monroe,  N.  C. 

Palestine  Commandery,  No.  20,  Fayetteville,  N.  C. 

Established  a  loan  fund  of  $_  — __  for  higher  education  to  be 
first  loaned  for  children  in  own  jurisdiction. 


St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  21,  Rocky  Mount,  N.  C. 
Assisting  a  young  man,  a  son  of  a  widow,  who  is  working 
his  way  through  school  in  a  medical  course  at  the  University  ot 
North  Carolina.  Have  also  agreed  to  assist  the  daughter  of  a 
deceased  Mason  who  desires  to  enter  school  middle  of  January. 


Appalachian  Commandery,  No.  22,  Minneapolis,  N.  C. 

Did  not  make  promise. 

Rockingham  Commandery,  No.  23,  Rockinghai^  N.  C. 
Assistine  in  the  education  of  the  daughter  of  a  Mason  at  the 
Nortt  cfrolfna  College  for  Women,  who  is  highly  recommended 
by  the  college  authorities. 

ttich  Point  Commandery,  No.  24,  High  Point,  N.  C. 
ASng  ^n  the  education  of  a  boy  at  Wake  Forest  College, 
whot  a  Traduate  of  the  Oxford  Orphanage  and  highly  recom- 
mended  by  them. 

CALVARY  COMMANDERY,  NO.  f  -  ^CoUege  for 

Educating  a  young  woman  at  North  Carol  na  g 

Women  at  Greensboro. 


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Goldsboro  Commandery,  No.  26,  Goldsboro,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  young  woman,  daughter  of  deceased  Mason, 
who  graduated  second  in  the  high  school,  now  attending  East 
Carolina  Teachers’  College  at  Greenville,  N.  C. 

Jacksonville  Commandery,  No.  27,  Jacksonville,  N.  C. 

Did  not  make  promise. 

Gastonia  Commandery,  No.  28,  Gastonia,  N.  C. 

Bethlehem  Commandery,  No.  29,  Greenville,  N.  C. 

Educating  young  woman,  high  school  graduate,  at  East  Caro¬ 
lina  Teachers’  College,  at  Greenville.  She  has  taught  for  one 
year  and  expects  to  make  teaching  her  life  work. 

Forest  City  Commandery,  No.  30,  Forest  City,  N.  C. 

Waynesville  Commandery,  No.  31,  Waynesville,  N.  C. 

Is  educating  an  orphan  girl  at  Montreat  Normal  School. 

Burlington  Commandery,  No.  i32,  Burlington,  N.  C. 

Contributed  $100.00  (April  18,  1923)  to  Knights  Templar  and 
Royal  Arch  Masons’  Loan  Fund. 

Lenoir  Commandery,  No.  33,  Lenoir,  N.  C. 

Educating  a  girl,  graduate  of  the  Oxford  Orphanage,  at 
Davenport  College,  Lenoir,  N.  C. 

KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR  AND  ROYAL  ARCH  MASONS’  LOAN 

FUND 

We  would  call  attention  especially  to  the  reports  of  these 
two  funds  at  North  Carolina  College  for  Women  and  East  Caro¬ 
lina  Teachers’  College,  as  they  have  been  in  existence  since 
November,  1921.  One  fund  was  loaned  to  six  seniors  and  the 
other  fund  to  eight  seniors,  most  of  which  fourteen  young  ladies 
would  otherwise,  for  lack  of  ready  money,  have  been  obliged  to 
leave  college  without  graduating.  As  it  is,  a  graduate  from 
either  of  these  institutions  commands  at  least  a  salary  of  $110.00 
per  month.  One  of  these  funds  reports  $40.00  repaid  this  year 
on  loans  made  last  year,  while  the  other  reports  $470.00  repaid 
by  March  1,  1922,  out  of  the  loans  made  in  the  spring  of  1921. 

Hereto  are  attached  the  statements  of  the  Knights  Templar 
and  Royal  Arch  Masons’  Loan  Funds  at  North  Carolina  College 
for  Women  at  Greensboro  and  East  Carolina  Teachers’  College 
at  Greenville,  which  explain  themselves.  (See  Statements  Nos. 
2  and  3.) 

STATEMENT  NO.  1 

KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR  AND  ROYAL  ARCH  MASONS’  LOAN 

FUND,  APRIL  1,  1923,  IN  ACCOUNT  WITH  ALEX¬ 
ANDER  B.  ANDREWS,  TREASURER 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


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RECEIPTS 


1921 

R.  A.  M. 

K.  T. 

Nov. 

1  Grand  Chapter 

$ 

500.00 

$  500.00 

$ 

Nov. 

1  Raleigh  Chapter,  R.A.M. 

150.00 

150.00 

Nov. 

1  Raleigh  Com.  K.T. _ 

50.00 

50.00 

Nov. 

10  Grand  Commandery _ 

500.00 

500.00 

1922 

May 

5  Grand  Chapter 

350.00 

350.00 

May  17  Grand  Commandery _ 

350.00 

350.00 

Sept. 

11  Ivanhoe,  No.  8,  K.T. _ 

100.00 

100.00 

1923 

Mar. 

10  Southern  Pines,  No.  6 

K.  T.  _  _  _  _ 

200.00 

200.00 

Mar. 

26  Ivanhoe,  No.  8,  K.  T. _ 

100.00 

100.00 

Mar. 

26  Chorazin,  No.  13,  R.A.M. 

100.00 

100.00 

$2,400.00 

$1,100.00 

$1,300.00 

DISBURSEMENTS 

1921 

Check 

N.C.C.W. 

E.C.T.C. 

Nov. 

1  1884  N.  C.  C.  W.  — 

$ 

350.00 

$  350.00 

$ 

Nov. 

1,  1885,  E.  C.  T.  C. 

350.00 

350.00 

Nov. 

10,  1907,  N.  C.  C.  W. 

250.00 

250.00 

Nov. 

10  1908  E.  C.  T.  C.  - 

250.00 

250.00 

1922 

May  5,  2105,  N.  C.  C.  W. 
May  5,  2106,  E.  C.  T.  C. 
May  17  2120  N.  C.  C.  W. 
May  17,  2121  N.  C.  C.  W. 
Oct.  13,  2314,  E.  C.  T.  C. 

1923 

Mar.  10,  2554,  N.  C.  C.  W. 
Mar.  10,  2555,  E.  C.  T.  C. 
Mar.  29,  2578,  N.  C.  C.  W. 
Mar.  29,  2579,  E.  C.  T.  C. 


200.00 

150.00 

200.00 

150.00 

200.00 

200.00 

150.00 

150.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

100.00 

$2,400.00 

North  Carolina  College  for  Women - 

East  Carolina  Teachers’  College - 


$1,200.00  $1,200.00 

_ $  1,200.00 

_  1,200.00 


Total  disbursements 
Since  the  closing  of 
Commandery,  No.  32,  K. 
in  report  for  1923-1924. 


_ $  2,400.00 

this  report  (April  18,  1923)  Burlington 
T.,  has  paid  $100.00,  which  will  appeal 


STATEMENT  NO.  2 


T?nvAT  AT?rH  MASONS’  AND  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR  LOAN 
""""fUND-RECE^AToF  i  B.  ANDREWS,  TREASURER 
THE  North  Carolina  College  for  Women,  Greensboro  N.  C. 


RECEIPTS 

November  2,  1921 - 

November  11,  1921 - 


350.00 

250.00 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


May  6,  1922  _ $  200.00 

May  18,  1922  _  200.00 

March  11,  1923  _ 100.00 

March  30,  1923  _  100.00 


Total  _ $  1,200.00 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Loans  1921-1922 

Charlotte  Daugherty _ $  250.00 

Sudie  Rhodes _  260.00 

Lucille  Mason _  260.00 

Mavis  Goodman  _  105.00 

Bernard  Hawkins  _  100.00 

Collina  Caldwell _  25.00 

Received  and  credited  on  Bernard  Hawkins’ 

note  _ $40.00 

Loans  1922-1923 

Nell  Thompson _  100.00 

Alberta  Thompson  _  100.00 

Sum  repaid  by  Bernard  Hawkins  loaned  to 

Mary  Sue  Beam _  40.00 


Respectfully  submitted, 

Laura  H.  Coit, 

Treasurer  Loan  Funds 

STATEMENT  NO.  3 

KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR  AND  ROYAL  ARCH  MASONS’  LOAN 

FUND 

East  Carolina  Teachers’  College,  Greenville,  N.  C. 


April  1,  1923 

receipts 

1921 

Nov.  1  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _ $  350.00 

INov.  10  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _  250.00 

1922 

May  5  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _  150.00 

May  17  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _  150.00 

Oct.  13  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.,  acct.  Ivan- 

hoe  Commandery,  No.  8 _  100.00 

1923 

Mar.  12  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.  acct. 

Southern  Pines,  No.  16 _  100.00 

Mar.  30  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.,  acct.  Ivan- 
hoe  Commandery,  No.  8,  and  Chorazin  Chapter 
No.  13  -  100.00 


Total  original  fund  _ $  1,200.00 

Interest  added  to  Fund: 

June  27,  1922  Interest  on  bank  deposits _ $14.00 

Aug.  20,  1922  Interest  on  bank  deposits _  3.46 


17.46 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


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1923 

Jan.  20  Interest  on  note  Ida  Holland _ $1.15 

Feb.  10  Interest  on  note  Augusta  Woodward__  2.50 

Feb.  15  Interest  on  note  Marie  Lowry _  9.30 

Mar.  7  Interest  on  note  Eva  Cooke _  2.25 

- $  15.20 


Total  Fund,  April  1,  1923  _  $  1,232.66 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Loans  from  this  fund: 

1922 

June  1  Eva  Cooke,  Senior  Class _ $  50.00 

Ida  Holland,  Senior  Class _  77.88 

Marie  Lowry,  Senior  Class _  240.00 

Mabel  R.  Thomas,  Junior  Class _  120.00 

Augusta  Woodward,  Senior  Class  _  60.00 

Daisy  Williams,  Senior  Class  _  180.00 

Aug.  1  Mahala  Ballance,  Senior  Class _  57.50 

Ida  Holland,  Senior  Class  _  45.00 

Trixie  Jenkins,  Senior  Class _  2.95 

Annabel  O’Neal,  Junior  Class _  40.00 

Beatrice  O’Neal,  Junior  Class _  40.00 


Total  loans  1922  (8  Sens,  and  3  Juns.)$ 
(Note:  Miss  Marie  Lowry  entered  school  from 

_ County,  N.  C.,  her  native  home.  Her 

father,  a  farmer,  later  moved  to - County, 

Va.,  near  Norfolk,  and  this  accounts  for  the  address 

as  given  during  her  senior  year  as - ,  Va. 

She  is  now  teaching  at _ N.  C.,  and  was  the 

first  student  to  make  payment  on  a  loan  from  this 
fund.) 

Payments  on  these  notes: 


1923 

Jan.  18  Marie  Lowry - $ 

Jan.  20  Ida  Holland  - 

Feb.  10  Augusta  Woodward - 

Feb.  15  Marie  Lowry - 

Feb.  24  Daisy  Williams  - 

Mar.  5  Trixie  Jenkins  - 

Mar.  7  Eva  Cooke - 


180.00 

45.00 

60.00 

60.00 

75.00 

2.95 

50.00 


913.33 


Deduct  total  payments 


472.95 


Balance  on  notes - 

Add  cash  on  deposit  at  4% 


440.38 

792.28 


Total  fund - 

SUMMARY 

Total  receipts  as  original  fund - 

Interest  received  from  banks - 

Iilterest  received  from  loans  to  students 


$  1,232.66 

$  .1,200.00 
17.46 
15.20 


$  1,232.66 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


Notes  outstanding  _ $  440.38 

Cash  on  deposit  with  banks  at  4% _  792.28 


$  1,232.66 


Loans  for  1923 

Allotments  have  been  made  as  of  March  20,  1923,  (beginning 
of  Spring  Term)  based  on  $792.20  available  cash  on  hand  distri¬ 
buted  in  the  Senior  Class  as  follows: 

Lucie  P.  Carrington, _ $  60.00 

Thelma  Jackson  _  180.00 

Ruth  Reed _  180.00 

Elise  Vaughan  _  180.00 

- $  600.00 

Written  applications  are  filed  for  all  loans,  but  we  do  not 
take  notes  until  the  close  of  the  College  term  or  year  covered  by 
the  loan  and  money  is  not  actually  written  off  the  Loan  Fund  until 
we  have  the  note  in  hand.  Funds  not  out  on  notes  are  held  in 
banks  at  4%  interest. 

The  above  report  is  correct  and  agrees  with  my  records. 

J.  B.  Spilman, 

Treasurer 


MASONIC  LOAN  FUNDS 

Attached  hereto  are  the  reports  of  the  four  Masonic  Loan 
Funds  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  -State  College,  North 
Carolina  College  for  Women  and  East  Carolina  Teachers’  Col¬ 
lege,  which  explain  themselves.  (See  Statements  Nos.  5,  6,  7 
and  8.) 

STATEMENT  NO.  4 

MASONIC  LOAN  FUND  IN  ACCOUNT  WITH  ALEXANDER 

B.  ANDREWS,  TREASURER 

April  1,  1923 


1922 

R.A.M. 

K.T.  A.F.&A.M. 

July  24 

Grand 

Chapter 

.$  1,000 

$  1,000 

July  24 

Grand 

Commandery 

500 

$  500 

Sept.  11 

Grand 

Chapter 

1,000 

1,000 

Sept.  11 

Grand 

Commanderv 

1,000 

1,000 

Oct.  12 

Grand 

Lodge 

1,000 

$  1,000 

Oct.  18 

Grand 

Lodge 

500 

500 

$  5,000 

$  2,000 

$  1,500  $  1,500 

DISBURSEMENTS 

1922 

Check 

Aug.  2 

2220 

North  Carolina 

College 

for  Women  375.00 

Aug.  2 

2221 

East  Carolina 

Teachers’  College 

375.00 

Aug.  2 

2218 

University  of  North  Carolina 

375.00 

Aug.  2 

2219 

State  College 

375.00 

Sept.  13 

2250 

North  Carolina 

College  for  Women  __  500.09 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


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Sept.  13  2251  East  Carolina  Teacher’s  College _ $  500.00 

Sept.  13  2252  University  of  North  Carolina _ _  500.00 

Sept.  13  2253  State  College  _  500.00 

Oct.  13  2310  North  Carolina  College  for  Women _  375.00 

Oct.  13  2311  East  Carolina  Teachers’  College _  375.00 

Oct.  13  2312  University  of  North  Carolina _  125.00 

Oct.  13  231(3  State  College  _  125.00 

Oct.  18  2i318  University  of  North  Carolina  _  250.00 

Oct.  18  2319  State  College _  250.00 


$  5,000.00 

North  Carolina  College  for  Women _ $  1,250.00 

1922,  Aug.  2  _ $  375.00 

Sept.  13 _  500.00 

Oct.  13  _  375.00 


East  Carolina  Teachers’  College _  1,250.00 

1922,  Aug.  2  _ $  375.00 

Sept.  13  _  500.00 

Oct.  13  _  375.00 


University  of  North  Carolina 

1922  Aug.  2  - 

Sept.  13  _ 

Oct.  13  _ 

Oct.  18  _ 


375.00 

500.00 

125.00 

250.00 


1,250.00 


State 

1922, 


College  of  Agriculture  and  Engineering 

Aug.  2  _ $ 

Sept.  13  - 

Oct.  13  - 

Oct.  18 - — - 


375.00 

500.00 

125.00 

250.00 


1,250.00 


Total  four  institutions 


5,000.00 


Receipts 


Date 
Aug.  8 
Sept.  18 
Oct.  16 
Oct.  20 


STATEMENT  NO.  5 


MASONIC  LOAN  TRUST  FUND 


Statement  of  University  of  North  Carolina 

and  Disbursements,  August  8,  1922,  to  April  1,  1923,  Inc. 


RECEIPTS  (Principal) 

From 

’22  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. - 

’22  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. - 

’22  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. - 

’22  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. - 


Amount 

375.00 

500.00 

125.00 

250.00 


Total  receipts  - - 

disbursements  (Loans) 

Total  from  institutions - 

Date  To 

Oct.  26  ’22  C.  G.  Mauney  - 

Nov.  9  ’22  S.  J.  Lane,  Jr.,  - - 

Jan.  3  ’23  R.  N.  Pendergraft  - 


1,250.00 

5,000.00 

Amount 

100.00 

100.00 

75.00 


10  REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


Jan.  9  '23  W.  E.  White _ $  150.00 

Jan.  25  '23  Edwin  Lanier _  120.00 

Feb.  6  '23  L.  P.  Williams  _  50.00 

Feb.  24  '23  J.  J.  Beale _  100.00 

Mar.  3  '23  W.  C.  Perdue _ 175.00 

Mar.  12  '23  J.  D.  Deaton _  50.00 

Mar.  26  '23  H.  H.  Broome _  100.00 


Total  disbursements  _ $  1,020.00 

Balance  _  230.00 


Total  value  fund  _ $  1,250.00 

STATEMENT  NO.  6 

MASONIC  LOAN  FUND 

North  Carolina  State  College  Agriculture  and  Engineering 

RECEIPTS 

1922 

Sept.  5  M.  E.  King _ $  100.00 

Sept.  12  Chk.  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.  500.00 
Oct.  16  Chk.  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.  125.00 

Oct.  20  Chk.  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas.  250.00 


Total  _ $  1,250.00 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Loans  made  to  the  following  Seniors: 

1922 

Sept.  5  M.  E.  King  _ $  100.00 

Oct.  30  G.  H.  Linebery _  100.00 

Oct.  30  W.  S.  Wells  _  75.00 

Oct.  30  W.  M.  Cummings  _  100.00 

1923 

Jan.  16  W.  R.  Anderson _  50.00 

Jan.  16  M.  H.  Ritchie  _  50.00 

Jan.  16  T.  L.  Stallings  _  50.00 

Jan.  16  W.  M.  Cummings _  100.00 

Feb.  28  W.  A.  Franklin  _  50.00 

Feb.  28  E.  F.  Stripe  _  50.00 

Feb.  28  H.  N.  Kelly _  50.00 

-  775.00 


Balance  on  hand  April  1,  1923  _  $  475.00 

STATEMENT  NO.  7 

RECEIVED  OF  A.  B.  ANDREWS  FOR  MASONIC  LOAN  FUND 
The  North  Carolina  College  for  Women,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 

April  1,  1923 

receipts 

August  3,  1922  _ $  375.00 

September  14,  1922  _  500.00 

October  14,  1922  _  375.00 


Total 


$  1,250.00 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


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DISBURSEMENTS 

Loans  1922-192(3 

Addie  Biggs  _ 

Dorothy  Clement  _ 

Eunice  Mann  _ 

Alberta  Thompson  _ 

Nell  Thompson  _ 

Lizzie  Whitley  _ 

Total  _ 


200.00 

300.00 

200.00 

150.00 

150.00 

250.00 

- $  1,250.00 


Respectfully  submitted, 

Laura  H.  Coit, 

Treasurer  Loan  Funds 


STATEMENT  NO.  8 

MASONIC  LOAN  FUND 

East  Carolina  Teachers’  College,  Greenville,  N.  C. 

April  1,  1923 

RECEIPTS 

1922 

Aug.  2  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _ $  875.00 

Sept.  13  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _  500.00 

Oct.  13  Check  from  A.  B.  Andrews,  Treas. _  375.00 

Total  original  fund  _ $  1,250.00 

This  is  now  held  on  deposit  at  4%  and  no  actual  disburse¬ 
ments  have  yet  been  made. 

LOANS  FOR  1923 

Allotments  have  been  made  as  of  March  20,  1923,  (beginning 
of  Spring  Term)  based  on  $1,250.00  plus  accrued  interest,  distri¬ 
buted  in  Senior  Class  as  follows: 

Annie  L.  Arnold  _ $  180.00 

Clara  Dowdy  _  75.00 

Thelma  Edgerton  _  180.00 

Bessie  Earless  _  60.00 

Senia  Frazier  _  180.00 

Cora  J.  Fowler _  75.00 

Martha  Inman  - 

Noma  Rogers -  ^on  nn 

Mittle  West  -  °0.00 

Ttip7  White  180.00 

Inez  wnite -  - ^  1,210.00 

Written  applications  are  filed  for  all  loans,  but  we  do  not  take 
notes  until  the  close  of  the  college  term  or  year  covered  by  the 
loan,  and  the  disbursement  is  not  actually  made  until  we  have 
the  note  in  hand.  Funds  not  out  on  notes  are  held  on  deposit  in 

Id^hIcs  4  •  •  j 

The  above  statement  is  correct  and  agrees  with  my  records. 

J.  B.  Spilman, 

Treasurer 

■  As  these  funds  have  been  in  existence  only  since  October, 
1922rthey  have  not  yet  had  time  for  repayment  to  commence  be- 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


ing  made,  but  in  a  few  years’  time  they  will  show  equally  as  much 
activity. 

It  is  the  unanimous  wish  and  desire  of  the  membership  of 
the  three  committees  that  this  work  in  future  continue  on  a  co¬ 
operative  basis,  just  as  this  year,  and  that  the  work  should  be 
increased. 

In  May,  1922,  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar 
ordered  levied  a  special  educational  tax  of  $1.00  on  each  Knight 
Templar,  which  is  estimated  will  yield  practically  $5,000.00  as  there 
were  4,350  Knights  Templar  in  April,  1922,  and  it  is  expected  that 
the  increased  growth  will  add  650  additional.  It  is  therefore  re¬ 
commended  that  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  put 
into  the  fund  $5,000.00  as  ordered  in  1922. 

It  is  recommended  that  the  Grand  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch 
Masons  of  North  Carolina  contribute  $3,000.00,  this  being  an 
increase  of  $1,000.00  over  the  appropriation  of  the  past  year. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  North  Carolina,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Jan¬ 
uary,  1923,  unanimously  appropriated  $2,000.00  for  the  educa¬ 
tional  loan  fund. 

This  will  make  an  aggrevate  of  $10,000.00  for  educational 
loan  fund  and  will  enable  many  a  deserving  North  Carolina  boy 
and  girl  to  complete  his  or  her  education,  by  borrowing  from  this 
fund  and  afterwards  repaying  it,  who  by  reason  of  having  no 
kins-people,  even  moderately  well-to-do  to  advance  them  the 
money,  and  having  no  collateral  upon  which  to  borrow  the  money, 
the  loans  from  these  funds  being  based  solely  upon  the  appli¬ 
cant’s  character,  capacity  for  education,  and  worthiness  of  cre¬ 
dit  as  shown  in  the  institution  handling  this  fund. 

The  committee  decided  to  place  the  funds  with  the  institu¬ 
tions,,  and  have  left  all  the  details  and  management,  including 
the  disbursing,  bookkeeping,  and  collecting  to  the  college  authori¬ 
ties,  as  it  was  impracticable  for  a  committee,  whose  personnel 
might  change  at  any  time,  to  satisfactorily  handle  these  mat¬ 
ters;  also  they  could  not  by  correspondence  pass  on  the  worthi¬ 
ness  or  unworthiness  of  an  applicant,  and  the  committee  were 
averse  to  incurring  any  expense  whatever  in  the  handling  of 
these  funds,  the  committee  asking  that  annual  reports  be  made 
of  the  funds  so  that  they  could  be  transmitted  to  the  Grand 
Bodies. 

The  plan  of  institutionalizing  these  funds  works  well  in  our 
State  where  the  foreign  born  population  is  less  than  one-half  of 
1  per  cent,  and  the  native  white  American  English-speaking  peo¬ 
ple  constitute  71  per  cent,  who  are  the  great  mass  of  people 
for  whose  use  and  assistance  these  funds  are  primarily  designed. 

During  the  past  year  your  committees  have  been  in  close 
touch  with  the  Knights  Templar  Educational  Loan  Fund  Com¬ 
mittees  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  whose  loan  fund  will  com¬ 
mence  to  function  July  1,  1924,  (North  Carolina  having  already 
levied  the  $1.00  for  educational  purposes  commencing  April  1, 
1923)  and  after  that  date  the  money  that  is  raised  by  the  Grand 
Commandery  out  of  that  per  capita  will  have  to  be  handled  under 
the  rules  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  as  the  money  then  raised 
will  be  the  property  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  which  they  re¬ 
quire  shall  be  handled  in  individual  cases.  To  institutionalize 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION 


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the  Grand  Encampment  funds  in  the  large  cities,  or  in  states 
having  a  large  foreign  population,  would  mean  that  they  would 
be  largely  availed  of  by  foreigners  to  the  exclusion  of  the  na¬ 
tive  American  English-speaking  boys  and  girls  whom  the  Grand 
Encampment  plans  to  assist  through  its  funds. 

The  work  of  the  Grand  Commandery  committee  after  July 
1,  1924,  for  the  reasons  stated  above,  will  be  handled  differently 
from  the  present,  but  their  loans  will  be  made  in  entire  co-opera¬ 
tion  and  only  working  with  the  committees  of  the  Grand  Chapter 
and  Grand  Lodge,  in  order  that  there  may  be  no  duplication  of 
work  and  that  the  money  may  be  wisely  and  most  advantageously 
loaned. 

Your  Committee  thinks  that  the  placing  of  $7,500.00  in  edu¬ 
cational  loan  funds  at  four  State  institutions  and  25 
Commanderies,  spending  $5,400.00  on  th^  education  of  20  boys 
and  girls,  an  aggregate  spent  of  over  $13,000.00  since  No¬ 
vember,  1921,  has  been  an  accomplishment  worth  while  to  Masonry 
and  all  of  its  branches,  and  the  doing  of  something  practical, 
humane  and  Christian  for  the  good  of  many  North  Carolina  boys 
and  girls,  the  cause  of  education,  humanity  and  the  good  of  the 
world. 

“What  we  do  for  ourselves  alone  dies  with  us;  what  we  do 
^or  others,  and  for  the  good  of  the  world,  is  lasting  and  immortal.” 

Fraternally  submitted, 

William  R.  Smith,  Grand  High  Priest, 

Raleigh  Chapter,  No.  10 
John  J.  Phoenix,  Past  Grand  High  Priest, 

Chorazin  Chapter,  No.  13  ^ 

Cornelius  M.  Vanstory,  Past  Grand  High  Priest, 
Chorazin  Chapter,  No.  13 
Alexander  B.  Andrews,  Past  Grand  High  Priest, 

Raleigh  Chapter,  No.  10 
Fred  F.  Harding,  Past  High  Priest, 

Raleigh  Chapter,  No.  10 

Committee  of  Grand  Chapter 


John  J.  Phoenix,  Grand  Commander, 

Ivanhoe  Commandery,  No.  8 
William  C.  Mudgett,  Deputy  Grand  Commander, 
Southern  Pines  Commandery,  No.  16 
Richard  S.  Gorham,  Grand  Generalissimo, 

St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  31 
James  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  Grand  Captain  General^ 

Plantagenet  Commandery,  No.  1 
Raymond  C.  Dunn,  Past  Grand  Commander 

St  Aldermar  Commandery,  No.  13 
Alexander  B.  Andrews,  Past  Grand  Commander, 
Raleigh  Commandery,  No.  4 

Committee  of  Grand  Cammandery 


PRESS  OF  OXFORD  ORPHANAGE 
OXFORD.  N.  C. 


